Can my rig handle modded skyrim?

[cdovenden]

Ok, so I've been trying to get skyrim running nicely for going on two weeks now. Just had it about right, tried to sort some infinite load screen crashes and managed to mess the whole thing up. Anyway, on the seemingly endless trek to getting the damn thing running again, I thought I'd see what anyone thought my rig ought to be able to do with the game (maybe I'm setting my sights way too high!). I stupidly didn't back up the sort-of-working ini files and have spent the past two days trying to work out what on earth was in there that had it running so well.

 

My Specs:

 

Windows 8 x32

Phenom II x4 965 3.4 GHz

3.25GB usable RAM

Radeon 7770 1GB V-Ram

 

I think a lot of my problems are from memory getting filled up (I've been getting the ol' black textures popping up just before CTDs recently). Get a lot of stutter when I turn around quickly too, like the game is trying to load the whole world behind me (I'm still on 5 grids, 32 exteriorCellbuffer).

I'm using all the texture mods from the S.T.E.P guide, though I've reduced the normal maps to 512x512 on most. Think I've got the game on about half draw distance for everything except grass objects and actors.

 

Can some in-the-know person tell me: should my comp actually be able to handle this game with high res textures? Or am I barking up the wrong tree.

 

If anyone has any advice on these memory-texture crashes, I'd love to hear it.

 

Cheers,

 

Chris

 

 

[rhowington]

You are probably asking too much of 7770 1gb using HighRez textures. Your processor is ok and so is your ram since Skyrim is a 32 bit game. Be sure to turn off antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. You can leave your Texture quality to high but, radial blur should be low, as should shadow detail and decal quality. Un-tic reflect sky if it is activated.

 

With that you should be able to add some textures but keep them 1024 at the highest. Just be choosey about what you want.

 

Hope this helps.

[cdovenden]

Cheers, I'll give it a go. With some of the lower textures. Maybe compress the normal maps for a few of the retextures.

 

Should I be messing around with uGrids or Cell buffer stuff do you think?

[Georgiegril]

I use 7 ugrids with a 512 MB card (though a much better processor). I am stable, but I DONT use mods that add a bunch of spawns (like skymo, skytest, etc) or ENBs high-res texture mods. You can't have everything, so you should choose what you think is most important for you.

 

Whatever you do, adding one or two changes at a time, reading everything you can find on the mod or the tweak before trying it and then playing through a bit to check for stability will help you identify a problem right away and makes troubleshooting much easier.

[MatrixCoder]

Use http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri or http://www.yougamers.com/ to check if system can handle it.